I lived on a river in Florida where this was a thing. They were all small ones but a 2-3' hard fish smashing you in the face as youre driving a boat 30 mph is still deadly. I heard tales of boaters getting knocked out then run over by their own boat as it drove in circles.
Jesus fuck. Imagine having a nice day on the boat with your family and a giant fucking fish comes out of nowhere and kills your daughter. That's awful.
A lot of lake monsters can also be attributed to sturgeons since they have the potential to get so large and look so distinct from most fish you would see in a lake or river. A big sturgeon jumping out of the water on a misty morning could look a lot like what people assume the Loch Ness Monster or most other lake monsters to look like.
In the second link they estimate the age of the fish? How do they? Carbon 14 like any inanimate object or is their another way of estimating animals age? Same for turtles
I vaguely remember an episode where he covered sturgeon in the Pacific Northwest (USA). I think it was the Columbia river dividing Oregon and Washington. I lived in Vancouver at the time and never swam in that river again.
Best part is: they get bigger than that. White Sturgeon (which is what that is) can get to about 20ft long, whereas Beluga Sturgeon can potentiallt reach 24.
I’m seeing a lot of misinformation so ill share some of my knowledge on these fish. First of all it’s extremely illegal to catch to eat these fish and you can spend time and jail if you do, but on the other hand it’s extremely important to catch these fish in order to track there population as the are threatened species. The process of catching these monsters is absolutely spectacular as they fly out of the water when you pull them up the surface, it’s also fucking exhausting as these beasts can grow to be 13 feet long and over 1500 pounds, and boy do they fight. They also don’t have any teeth, as they are bottom feeder mainly feeding on dead salmon and other dead shit (think prehistoric catfish). The only dangerous about these guys are there scales which are essentially super sharp and hard bone. If your wondering how they are as close as they are in the video, that fishy is completely exhausted from its battle with fisherman (who is also exhausted, battles can take hours) that caught em.
I used to raise Russian Sturgeon at a fish farm. We harvested them for caviar but we also smoked the meat and sold it. It's very tasty, almost like pork in texture. One time, we had a guy come to the farm and asked for a dead fish to use its hide for an archery bow.
Not sure if you're talking about a particular species of sturgeon but you absolutely can catch and eat sturgeon. My buddy caught one out of Grizzly Island in California and we cooked it up. You do need a stamp/card/permit though.
Yeah man sturgeon are wild. Can get up to 25 feet long and 3500 pounds! They're the largest fresh water fish and pretty much tied with great whites for the largest predatory fish
I'm real fucking sick of people putting fucking cringe or overplayed music really loud over TikTok. I genuinely want to know who likes that shit? You can just upload a fucking video without music, it's okay.
I used to raise Russian Sturgeon for caviar. They are bottom feeders with telescopic mouths and do not have teeth. There is no way they can bite anyone.
This is in the Fraser River, BC. Illegal to catch and keep these endangered fish. Many charter boats however are involved in tracking and tagging programs that are meant to aid in research and conservation. It's pretty good actually, and these are hardy fish that aren't severely affected by the stress of being caught.
Where I'm from it's illegal to catch one larger than a certain size, since they take so long to reach adulthood and an adult can reproduce thousands of young. I think 8 feet is the cutoff, but you can catch and release larger ones and I've seen a picture of a 16 footer.
This one appears to be wild and not necessarily captured, and I agree that nobody other than scientists or conservationists should be messing with wild sturgeon (at the very least, not until their numbers rebound more).
They live in freshwater too. In the ocean there’s plenty of whales and sharks to compete with but when it comes to lakes there’s nobody topping these fishes
some hundreds of years ago before the sturgens were overfished almost to extinction there were fishers who drowned because these guys could overturn the boats just passing by
They didn't, it appears to be "breathing" (is that what fish do with their gills?) and it's illegal to kill sturgeon in BC. They may be tagging it for science, but considering their business depends on these fish and their logo is on display, I highly doubt they're killing it.
My dad caught an 8 foot sturgeon once. It was well oversized to keep so he let it go. I once caught a 5 1/2 foot one . At the time it was right within the limit of what you could keep , it took me a good half hour to reel that sucker in, I almost had to pass it off to someone else at the end . It’s of these were on the Columbia river on the Oregon/WA border
I grew up on Lake Erie as a kid. One day, I found a dead sturgeon washed up on shore, and went and got my family. We actually all lined up side-by-side behind the sturgeon, and had someone take a picture. The dead sturgeon was longer than the seven of us together.
Wauna Lake Lodge [in the Columbia River Gorge] has an old photo on the wall that shows a toddler straddling a sturgeon and the kids legs don't touch the ground. Legend? has it the sturgeon was on the dock for 12 hours and then came to life , flipped off the dock and disappeared
I fish the Saint John river in New Brunswick and you can see these fish jumping straight out of the water trying to shake off the sea lice and it’s amazing to watch. They jump straight up and slap off the top of the water not as graceful as the bass that I see jumping but still fun to watch and I have never seen one this big
They're native to my hometown. They're bottom feeders, along with a couple other fish in the area that people will fish for. If you're going for a smaller bottom feeder and get a snag while reeling in, there's a decent chance it's actually one of these. A lot of places are changing to require barbless hooks because sturgeon break off so many
Ogopogo is a huge, snake-like, Canadian ´lake monster'. Most people think that it's a group of massive sturgeon surfacing at the same time.
In case anyone else was slightly confused by this comment like I was, Ogopogo is a mythical creature like the Loch Ness monster.
PLESIOSAUR
Those fish are as old as dinosaurs
Theres no way it took that fish 65,000,000 years to get that big
Clarification- this fish species is as old as the dinosaurs
You are right these bozos don’t know nothing
Scans show multiple leviathan class creatures in your area.
Are you certain whatever you're doing is worth it?
Welcome aboard, captain! All systems online!
Automatically, would get the right of way. I want off the planet if I were to encounter that.
Good ol' subnoots... I should play that again.
mmmh that shiver of fear I get from that :)
oxygen
Nature is so bad ass
They be liable ter swallow a man whole a'swell matey. Seen it appen meself down in the ole
On that note google ''Michigan Dogman and the Beast of Bray Road'', you''ll end up down a rabbit hole that will have you saying, ''what in the...'
I'd say metal
Holy hell, that’s a big fish
There’s always a bigger fish
They can live for hundreds of years as well.
"Fun" fact, sturgeon leap out of the water alot..
I lived on a river in Florida where this was a thing. They were all small ones but a 2-3' hard fish smashing you in the face as youre driving a boat 30 mph is still deadly. I heard tales of boaters getting knocked out then run over by their own boat as it drove in circles.
Jesus fuck. Imagine having a nice day on the boat with your family and a giant fucking fish comes out of nowhere and kills your daughter. That's awful.
A lot of lake monsters can also be attributed to sturgeons since they have the potential to get so large and look so distinct from most fish you would see in a lake or river. A big sturgeon jumping out of the water on a misty morning could look a lot like what people assume the Loch Ness Monster or most other lake monsters to look like.
i like your facts thank you
A sturgeon killed a shark at the aquarium im volunteering at a few years ago.
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The spines along the side are called scutes and they tear holes in waders easily …
In the second link they estimate the age of the fish? How do they? Carbon 14 like any inanimate object or is their another way of estimating animals age? Same for turtles
I was gonna say, the Sturgeon in Lake Erie are monstrous. This thing is teeny tiny. I had no idea about the sturgeon throat slitting tho!
i like your facts thank you
Upstate NY finger lakes have these bastards.
Jeremy wade is frothing at the mouth
Why, is there a catfish nearby?
I vaguely remember an episode where he covered sturgeon in the Pacific Northwest (USA). I think it was the Columbia river dividing Oregon and Washington. I lived in Vancouver at the time and never swam in that river again.
Scotland's first minister out for a swim.
That thing is way bigger than our wee Nicola.
Like a Sturgeon
🎶 Touched for the very first time 🎶
Like a Scottish Nicola
Whenever I see something like this, my mind immediately starts imagining all the monstrosities that could be lurking in the depths of the ocean.
thalassophobia
Best part is: they get bigger than that. White Sturgeon (which is what that is) can get to about 20ft long, whereas Beluga Sturgeon can potentiallt reach 24.
Literally the size of the largest Great White. Holy tits
Man alive, at what point do they get classified as small whales? That bastard is HUGE.
The ancient one
That's a different movie
Just caught one of these in animal crossing
Is it going to do sturgery?
I’m seeing a lot of misinformation so ill share some of my knowledge on these fish. First of all it’s extremely illegal to catch to eat these fish and you can spend time and jail if you do, but on the other hand it’s extremely important to catch these fish in order to track there population as the are threatened species. The process of catching these monsters is absolutely spectacular as they fly out of the water when you pull them up the surface, it’s also fucking exhausting as these beasts can grow to be 13 feet long and over 1500 pounds, and boy do they fight. They also don’t have any teeth, as they are bottom feeder mainly feeding on dead salmon and other dead shit (think prehistoric catfish). The only dangerous about these guys are there scales which are essentially super sharp and hard bone. If your wondering how they are as close as they are in the video, that fishy is completely exhausted from its battle with fisherman (who is also exhausted, battles can take hours) that caught em.
I used to raise Russian Sturgeon at a fish farm. We harvested them for caviar but we also smoked the meat and sold it. It's very tasty, almost like pork in texture. One time, we had a guy come to the farm and asked for a dead fish to use its hide for an archery bow.
Not sure if you're talking about a particular species of sturgeon but you absolutely can catch and eat sturgeon. My buddy caught one out of Grizzly Island in California and we cooked it up. You do need a stamp/card/permit though.
Wisconsin has a lake sturgeon spearing season so not necessarily illegal to “catch” and eat.
You sir, are a fish.
At least pick the Jaws theme tune
What the fuck
That must be The Sturgeon General.
In my mind, the plural of sturgeon is sturgea.
Yeah man sturgeon are wild. Can get up to 25 feet long and 3500 pounds! They're the largest fresh water fish and pretty much tied with great whites for the largest predatory fish
25 feet???? What!!!!
Sturgeons are my favorite fish, so majestic
You sir, are a fish!
I saw the title and thought this was about Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland.
Qui-Gon: heavy breathing
Music makes it cringe
right? tik tok, instagram reels/tv etc - they’ve shown us that millions of people can ruin an innocuous video with a shit fucking song.
I'm real fucking sick of people putting fucking cringe or overplayed music really loud over TikTok. I genuinely want to know who likes that shit? You can just upload a fucking video without music, it's okay.
Thank you.
Bro thats a whole ass baby mosasaur
I know a guy who was bitten in the face buy one of these badboys, had to undergo plastic...sturgery
I used to raise Russian Sturgeon for caviar. They are bottom feeders with telescopic mouths and do not have teeth. There is no way they can bite anyone.
Wat in tarnation
I wonder if it can perform sturgery
Wonder how much CJ would give for this honker!
No no no, that’s Nessie: the Loch Ness monster.
You kinda Gotta be a douche to go catch that giant creature
This is in the Fraser River, BC. Illegal to catch and keep these endangered fish. Many charter boats however are involved in tracking and tagging programs that are meant to aid in research and conservation. It's pretty good actually, and these are hardy fish that aren't severely affected by the stress of being caught.
Where I'm from it's illegal to catch one larger than a certain size, since they take so long to reach adulthood and an adult can reproduce thousands of young. I think 8 feet is the cutoff, but you can catch and release larger ones and I've seen a picture of a 16 footer.
This one appears to be wild and not necessarily captured, and I agree that nobody other than scientists or conservationists should be messing with wild sturgeon (at the very least, not until their numbers rebound more).
Wait 'til you hear about the whales
Should have used
Water dino. Respect the fish.
I’ve gone fishing in the Fraser River before and came across some pretty big sturgeon, but this is something else. Fraser River in BC right?
Correct.
Daaaamn, we sure this ain’t a baby whale shark or something? Jk. But for real though.
"You're gonna need a bigger boat"
My brain cannot decide between "we eating good tonight" and "oh god why is that fish so big get away from it"
Literal dinosaurs.
holy shit
those big fishes or sharks swimming so slowly scares the shit out of me. somehow I find it scarier than they moving fast
They live to be very old. That fish could be over 100 years old.
They live in freshwater too. In the ocean there’s plenty of whales and sharks to compete with but when it comes to lakes there’s nobody topping these fishes
Iamagine needing a katana to kill your fish off
ah, so thats why barbarians is osrs use heavy fishing rods
Barbarian fishing training for strength.
Nicola?
The ol’ diamondback sturgeon keeps swimming along
Did they catch it? Is it alive? Doesn't look alive. I mean definitely won't stay this still if it was alive :P
some hundreds of years ago before the sturgens were overfished almost to extinction there were fishers who drowned because these guys could overturn the boats just passing by
That's what happens when you aren't currently hunting them to extinction.
Sturgeon have a ludicrously long lifespan it's no surprise they grow enormous.
He’s the sturgeon general.
Amazing dad joke. Thank you.
Cool dinosaur fish
200 million years. They know how to survive.
Fuck whoever killed it.
This is real? Shit…
What a sturgeon
Need about tree fiddy
Growing up my dad and I would fish these on the Colombian river between Washington state and Oregon.
A Million dollars worth of Caviar may have been inside its belly.
That's not a fish. That's an aquatic monster that got separated from its group and is now confused as to where it is.
Fish in general will just never stop growing as long as there is space for them to grow and enough food.
That a lot of caviar
Nessie is that you lass
The dramatic music makes it even better🤝
Fish on!
Theme good eatin...
deep fry that mofo
That’s so gross how they killed it and strung it along in the water for effect. You can see the rope
They didn't, it appears to be "breathing" (is that what fish do with their gills?) and it's illegal to kill sturgeon in BC. They may be tagging it for science, but considering their business depends on these fish and their logo is on display, I highly doubt they're killing it.
They're fishermen......where TF you expect them to put a catch that big in the meantime?
Anyone see that video on YouTube of the sturgeon attacking out of nowhere? Absolutely insane
Never watched river monsters eh?
Does anyone know the actual size?
I don't, but 9' wouldn't be an unreasonable guess. These things get huge and can live 100 years.
People used to pull these out of lakes with horses they are so big.
That sir, is a whale
That’s still good meat on that fucking fish kid, AM I LYIN
When I had my gall bladder removed my doctor was like 6'3" so yeah they can get pretty big.
That's literally what they're known for...
My dad caught an 8 foot sturgeon once. It was well oversized to keep so he let it go. I once caught a 5 1/2 foot one . At the time it was right within the limit of what you could keep , it took me a good half hour to reel that sucker in, I almost had to pass it off to someone else at the end . It’s of these were on the Columbia river on the Oregon/WA border
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That might be a Loch Ness Monster😳
Somebody didn't listen to Blathers saying how big they get! Jk....I think I've been playing too much ACNH
Fraser River in Vancouver BC?
Just wait til you see them perform surgery
Someone call Jeremy wade
My absolute favorite catch and release fish in the PNW
I thin the plural for Sturgeon is 'Sturgeon' and not "Sturgeons" (like deer)
I read the title as surgeons and was very confused
How would it taste? Does size effect texture of the meat?
Let him gooooo he already so big :(
That's no sturgeon, that's a god damn loch Ness Monster
What version of Sweet Dreams is that?
Really read it as surgeons
I want to give that fish a hug
Im sorry, what?
There's one in Scotland that's about 5ft 3"
The Ol' Diamond back Sturgeon came swimmin' along...
Bet that thing is 1000 years old
Love my beautiful home
Self identified as the Loch Ness Monster.
Thank you for the forced perspective and no frame of reference
That's crazy, I wonder what else is out there
No wonder they're so hard to get in Stardew valley
I wonder if it can perform sturgery
I grew up on Lake Erie as a kid. One day, I found a dead sturgeon washed up on shore, and went and got my family. We actually all lined up side-by-side behind the sturgeon, and had someone take a picture. The dead sturgeon was longer than the seven of us together.
thallasophobia
Yowza.
Stupid tik tok music
Ah, they killed it
My Animal Crossing guy must be ripped as fuck to hold this thing up.
Wauna Lake Lodge [in the Columbia River Gorge] has an old photo on the wall that shows a toddler straddling a sturgeon and the kids legs don't touch the ground. Legend? has it the sturgeon was on the dock for 12 hours and then came to life , flipped off the dock and disappeared
We're going to need a bigger boat
You, sir, are a fish.
The biggest fish I've ever seen in someones koi pond was a sturgeon. It made the blimp kois look like gold fish.
Yo........that's like some river monster sh*t.........💯🤙
Is the music qued because they killed or about to kill the fish? Poor guy musta led a stressful life.
megalophobia
I read "surgeon" and I was pretty confused for the whole video
reason 47000 why i’m scared of water
Thats a big lad right there.
Catch em all fisher would love to catch this one
Seems you found Crusader Kings' pond/unwanted Heir daycare.
Nessie, is that you?
Anybody music?
Fuck that
God damn loch Ness monster
Might not be too many of them left at that size. With overfishing and pollution.
I fish the Saint John river in New Brunswick and you can see these fish jumping straight out of the water trying to shake off the sea lice and it’s amazing to watch. They jump straight up and slap off the top of the water not as graceful as the bass that I see jumping but still fun to watch and I have never seen one this big
You, sir, are a fish!
They're native to my hometown. They're bottom feeders, along with a couple other fish in the area that people will fish for. If you're going for a smaller bottom feeder and get a snag while reeling in, there's a decent chance it's actually one of these. A lot of places are changing to require barbless hooks because sturgeon break off so many
How many people can that feed?
Fraser river - largest, I believe has been 12+ ft and 1000lbs
I guess old boy from hey Arnold wasn’t that far off
Prehistoric.
What’s the song for this video?
Sweet Dreams by Puppetmaster (00:39; matched: 100%)
Is it dead? Why can't we leave these beauties alone?
I think I know what part of us was swimming in the ocean millions of years ago now